Holiday Inn Holiday Inn ExpressIHG Bait & Switch Telephone Scam Nationwide

I called Holiday Inn to get hep using my "points and cash" option. After the call ended the assistant told me that they "want[ed] to offer ...[me] a free night at one of our hotels" and "would...[I] be interested?" So she switched me to another line where a man came on and began to describe how I was among the elite group of only 5% of callers chosen & how all their hotels had been recently updated to a more modern look. And began to offer me a "3-night/4-night" stay at a number of places for the cost of $249 (200 of which would be refunded after we listened to a 2 hour presentation). After failing to meet the minimum $50,000 income requirement, he told me I was not eligible.

I, then, asked him about the "free night stay" the first rep had enticed me with before switching me to this sales rep. He said that the "one free night" was actually the sales pitched which he had just given me to purchase 3 nights. 

This is, in my mind, a classic bait & switch sales ploy! I received bupkis! Thankfully, it only cost me 15 minutes of my life.